# What could you teach people of a thousand years ago?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 17, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-you-teach-people-of-a-thousand-years-ago/477563 "2008-12-17T15:03:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-you-teach-people-of-a-thousand-years-ago/477563/101 "2008-12-23T03:08:28Z")

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**Quartz** , why would you bother teaching that? Forks aren’t the easiest thing to make- I’d rather go with chopsticks.

Chopsticks are one of the two things I could teach well: using chopsticks and how to crochet. I guess I could do some math, or the three-field system and other parts of crop rotation, particularly the importance of legumes, and if the town didn’t have horse collars yet, that too.

Do I get undergarments and socks with my jeans, t-shirts, and shoes? I could probably do something with the underwire of my bra.

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**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-you-teach-people-of-a-thousand-years-ago/477563/102 "2008-12-23T05:27:12Z")

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Religious tolerance. Just me and a division or so of armor…

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